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TEACH A MAN TO FISH INC

TEACH A MAN TO FISH INC (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,018 to it, the largest being NEW ENGLAND BIOLABS FOUNDATION ($7,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2023
$147
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$7k
Net assets
$0
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Teach a Man to Fish Inc does

Mission

Ocean restoration and economic development

As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Only program - ocean restoration and economic development. In ostional, nicaragua, we are 100% complete on the installation of 200+ artificial reefs.

    $251 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $251.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($106k) Expenses 100 ($84k) Net assets 100 ($32k)2021 Revenue 30 ($31k) Expenses 67 ($56k) Net assets 23 ($8k)2023 Revenue 0 ($147) Expenses 0 ($251) Net assets 0 ($0)
202020212023
Revenue (0)Expenses (0)Net assets (0)

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $32k to $8k (−77%).

$32k
$8k
$0
202020212023
Total assets

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2020
2021
2023
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$22k
’20
−$25k
’21
−$104
’23
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $6k → $18.

Funder
'19
'20
'21
total
funders
1
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of TEACH A MAN TO FISH INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

TEACH A MAN TO FISH INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% — broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

TEACH A MAN TO FISH INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 1 state in all.

MA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’19
’20
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like TEACH A MAN TO FISH INC

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Michigan

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MI

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TEACH A MAN TO FISH INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds TEACH A MAN TO FISH INC?
TEACH A MAN TO FISH INC (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,018 to it, the largest being NEW ENGLAND BIOLABS FOUNDATION ($7,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TEACH A MAN TO FISH INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $7,018 in grants to TEACH A MAN TO FISH INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TEACH A MAN TO FISH INC?
NEW ENGLAND BIOLABS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $7,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TEACH A MAN TO FISH INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2020–2023), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing